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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:17:52 +0100
Subject: Re: cvs commit:
 jakarta-commons/betwixt/src/java/org/apache/commons/betwixt/expression
 ClassNameExpression.java
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From: robert burrell donkin <robertburrelldonkin@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
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On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 05:07 PM, James Strachan wrote:

> On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 04:59 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote:
>
>> hi james
>>
>> On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 07:29 PM, jstrachan@apache.org wrote:
>>
>>> jstrachan    2003/03/20 11:29:07
>>>
>>>   Modified:    betwixt/src/java/org/apache/commons/betwixt/io
>>>                         BeanRuleSet.java BeanCreateRule.java
>>>   Added:       betwixt/src/test/org/apache/commons/betwixt/derived
>>>                         EmployeeBean.java PersonListBean.java
>>>                         TestDerived.java PersonBean.java person-list.xml
>>>                         ManagerBean.java
>>>                betwixt/src/java/org/apache/commons/betwixt/expression
>>>                         ClassNameExpression.java
>>>   Log:
>>>   Added provisional support to allow bean types to be customized by the 
>>> presence of a 'className' attribute.
>>>
>>>   Its fairly simple and only works for parsing of beans right now. We 
>>> need to add this customization feature to the ElementDescriptors so 
>>> that this can be enabled as required and
>>>   then used to auto-default an AttributeDescriptor with a 
>>> ClassNameExpression so that the output of the bean will also convey the 
>>> className attribute again.
>>>
>>>   Also the attribute used to describe the class name should be 
>>> configurable.
>>
>> just so i'm clear, this means that an attribute of the xml being parsed 
>> is used to specify the class to be constructed, right?
>>
>> so what we'd need to do to make it configurable is to add another 
>> attribute to the .betwixt file that allows the attribute to use to be 
>> specfied.
>
> Yes.

cool.

i should have a bit more coding time over the next few weeks so maybe we 
can push betwixt on a bit.

- robert


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